Contemporary minimalist architecture is simple shapes and uniform colours. The glass wall and metal accents complement and decorate the simple façade. More and more often these cool arrangements are complemented by natural accents such as wood and stone, in the form of formwork or gabion walls.

The models help Revit users to design glazed facades in the programme with the same ease of a standard integrated curtain wall system. It also enables specifiers to easily upgrade curtain walling to a Pilkington Planar™ façade.

These new regulations will have a significant impact on the type, location and quantity of glass architects specify, increasing the need for solar control glazing, which allows daylight to pass through a window or façade, while reflecting away the sun’s heat to help prevent overheating.

4000m2 of glass was used in total across the façade. The £90m, nine-storey mixed-use project has created over 65,000 sq ft of category-A office space as well as eight restaurant and retail units on the lower-ground, ground and first floors.

BIPV stands for Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) and refers to a building component which has been enhanced to perform as a renewable energy generating material in addition to being an integrated part of the architecture and building façade.

Windows Glass can enhance your windows in more ways than you might imagine. Our wide range of glass can be used in various ways in an IGU (insulating glass unit) to help achieve improved window performance, as well as aesthetic enhancement to any style of home.

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Largest glazed façade orientation: High risk location: Moderate risk location: Maximum area of glazing (% floor area) Maximum area of glazing in most glazed room (% floor area of room) Maximum area of glazing (% floor area) Maximum area of glazing in most glazed room (% floor area of room) North: 15: 37: 18: 37: East: 18: 37: 18: 37: South: 15 ...

Standards & Regulations. Standards & Regulations A quick guide to some of the Standards & Building Regulations used in construction that have implications for the choice of glass

Travellers enter the new station though a welcoming entrance lobby with a double-height glazed entrance façade which includes both flat and elegantly curved glass. To maximise sight-lines and minimise framing – which would break up the view of the impressive roof-line – the designers specified the Pilkington Planar™ structural glazing ...